China’s NOCs to be Fourth Highest Upstream Investors in Africa Over Next Five Years, Says GlobalData
China’s national oil companies (NOCs) are increasingly investing in Africa to secure oil supplies to help feed surging domestic energy demand. As a result, their development and production capital expenditure (capex) in Africa’s upstream sector is forecast to be the fourth highest between 2019 and 2023, behind global counterparts BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Eni SpA, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company’s latest research reveals that the combined ups...
AASHTO Releases Annual Transportation Salary Survey
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has issued its annual job classifications and salary information survey for state transportation departments. Developed by AASHTO’s Committee on Human Resources, the survey is viewed as a “tool” intended for human resource administrators and others whose work involves studying and analyzing job classifications, writing job descriptions, and developing/designing pay structures unique to departments of transportation....
Nine State DOTs Among Those Selected by FRA for $326M in CRISI Grants
The Federal Railroad Administration awarded more than $326 million in Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements or CRISI grants to fund 45 railroad projects in 29 states, with nine state departments of transportation receiving funds for 12 projects. FRA’s Ronald Batory FRA Administrator Ronald Batory noted in a statement on June 12 that the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation or FAST Act established the CRISI program, which funds projects that improve the safety, efficiency...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Availability of $60 Million for Advanced Transportation Technologies Grants
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for states, cities and other agencies to compete for $60 million in Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Program (ATCMTD) grants to fund new technologies that improve transportation efficiency. “This program puts a priority on promoting innovative solutions that improve safety and mobility for our nation’s driver...
Federal Railroad Administration Announces More Than $326 Million in Grants to Support Railroad Infrastructure
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced the recipients of more than $326 million in grant funds under the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program and the Special Transportation Circumstances Program, for a wide variety of state and local railroad infrastructure projects. The grants will fund 45 projects in 29 states. “These investments in intercity passenger and freight rail will benefit surrou...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $321.4 Million for Federal Lands and Tribal Projects
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced recipients of $321.4 million in Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects (NSFLTP) grants. These are the first grants awarded under the program and will help build and repair roads and bridges that serve Tribal or Federal lands. “This investment will fund long overdue infrastructure projects to improve safety on roads for underserved Tribal communities and Federal lands,”...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $500,000 for Emergency Repairs to Flood-Damaged Roads in Vermont
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the immediate availability of $500,000 in “quick release” Emergency Relief (ER) funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to help repair flood-damaged roads throughout Vermont. The funds were approved shortly after being requested by the Vermont Agency of Transportation. Vermont experienced flooding and rapid runoff as the result of heavy rain and snowmelt on April 15-16 and on April 19-20. The damage was exp...
Saudi Aramco-Sabic Deal Helps Citi Retain Top Position in GlobalData’s M&A Financial Advisers League Table in Oil & Gas Sector
Citi has retained the top position in the latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) league table of the top 10 financial advisers for the oil & gas sector based on deal value for the first quarter (Q1) 2019, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The American multinational investment bank topped the rankings with a deal value of US$81.1bn, by advising on eight deals during the quarter, which incidentally was the highest in terms of volume (a figure shared by two others). H...
ARTBA Foundation Announces Financial Assistance to 16 Children of Fallen Highway Workers
WASHINGTON) - Sixteen children of highway workers who were killed or permanently disabled on the job will receive post-high school financial assistance for the 2019-20 school year from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation’s (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship” fund. Now in its 20th year, the program was established with a gift from two Roanoke, Virginia, highway contracto...
Profile Products' Adam Dibble Promoted to Director of Marketing
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (May 23, 2019) — Profile® Products is proud to announce the promotion of Adam Dibble, CPESC, CESSWI, to director of marketing. Dibble will lead Profile’s strategic marketing and serve as a resource for all of Profile’s business units including Erosion and Vegetative Solutions (EVS), sports fields, golf, landscape and horticulture. He will also remain the brand manager for EVS. “In the time Adam has been at Profile, he has proven his dedication to this industry not only in...
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